Submitting to arxiv before submitting to a journal?

Hello, everyone! Just wanted to know if I can first submit my paper to arxiv before I submit to a journal in elsevier. Hoping to find a clear answer. Thank you!

12 January 2021 5,266 3 View

What crossover operators can be used for a GA that finds suboptimal positions for a set of buildings?

I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis where I develop a genetic algorithm that finds suboptimal 2D positions for a set of buildings. The solution representation is a vector of real...

11 January 2021 9,835 4 View

How does one subset time series GPS data to to 1 hour intervals?

I have time series GPS tracking data from a number of individuals, all with varying time between locations (i.e. certain individuals recording at 15 minutes intervals, others at 20 minutes or 1...

06 December 2020 9,038 3 View

Popular image segmentation quality measures ?

Evaluation metric to assess superpixel based algorithms

13 September 2020 5,793 13 View

What is the best research topic related to Disaster Management for Senior High School Students?

Disaster, Youth, Research Topic

07 September 2020 8,789 9 View

Can I ask for your suggestions in freeze-drying PCR/LAMP mixes?

We have a project on development of a dry loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)-based kit for detection of plant viruses on field site. One of the challenges in this project is the...

06 September 2020 8,531 4 View

How much is a paper publication in IEEE non-open journal?

Hello, I was wondering how much it cost to publish in an IEEE journal that is non-open access. Is there a direct answer to this? If also, can anyone suggest a good journal with a decent Impact...

15 July 2020 2,885 8 View

CNN papers using Random Search Algorithms?

Hi, I'am looking for good papers that applied Random Search to optimize their hyper-parameters for CNN. Thank you!

09 March 2020 2,097 3 View

How to edit the single phase UDF for a multiphase case?

In the first case (single phase case) liquid enters the tube and absorbs heat energy which is produced by the solid region. There is no phase change happening here. The following UDF is used to...

07 January 2020 5,829 1 View

Can anyone give me some tips in publishing my research in Scopus indexed journals?

Looking for ways to how I can somehow get my work published on Scopus indexed journals? Here are some of my works. I'm planning to conduct new experiments and improve my writing. I want to...

17 December 2019 713 6 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

What is the indication of the absence of peaks in Methanol electrooxidation CV curves ?

I have several question regarding the MOR; hope anyone help me better understand. 1- in CV using (KOH+MEOH) what is the indication of absence of the redox peaks? shouldn't they exist as a sign...

28 February 2021 4,851 8 View

How to remove fatty material from plant extract?

The resultant solid was partitioned three times with 250 ml of petroleum ether (40-60/c) to remove any fatty material and evaporated to dryness.

28 February 2021 9,464 2 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

How to make fractions of chloroform extract of plant, using seperating funnel?

28 February 2021 8,466 2 View

Why am i not getting solid after reacting APTES with salicylaldehyde?

The reaction of APTES with salicylaldehyde in ethanol leads to the formation of imine compound yellow solid which is mention in literature, but I am not getting yellow solid I don't know why? when...

28 February 2021 2,955 2 View

How to best wash a 96-well plate containing microplastic?

I am planning my protocol for my dissertation for an experiment quantifying bacterial (E. coli) biofilm formation on micro-plastic (5mm discs of polyethylene bags) by conducting a crystal violet...

23 February 2021 7,868 2 View

Are there any known solvothermal methods to synthesize MoS2 nanosheets using solvents other than water (like ethanol/ethanol-water mixture) ?

I need to synthesize MoS2 nanosheets by alternate methods without pure water as a solvent.

22 February 2021 9,246 1 View

How to improve the adhesion between germanium and silicon monoxide thin film layers using EBEAM evaporation?

I want to deposit multilayer coating of germanium and silicon monoxide on silicon wafer using ebeam evaporation?

21 February 2021 2,141 3 View